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PRH & S&S trial in the home stretch (This week in books)

August 19, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! As I’m sure you’ve seen by now, author Salman Rushdie was attacked onstage at the Chautauqua Institute last week, but fortunately is expected to recover. Jennifer Schuessler writes about how the attack has renewed discussions about free speech, and Randy Boyagoda calls for more people to read Rushdie’s work. The antitrust lawsuit […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Andrew Cuomo, Anne R. Allen, Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey, Jennifer Schuessler, Joseph Perry, Katy Waldman, Klerb, Madeline McIntosh, Randy Boyagoda, Salman Rushdie

Watch out for book to film scams (This week in books)

June 17, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments

This week! Books! First up, we continue to live in a golden age for scammers, and Anne R. Allen has an important post about a new, more polished publishing trap: the book to film scam, where a “film scout” suggests you pay for a new screenplay or treatment so they can shop it to streaming […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Anne R. Allen, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Elizabeth A. Harris, Ian Bogost, literary agents, Scams

Cormac McCarthy has two new novels (This week in books)

March 11, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 7 Comments

This week! Books! Cormac McCarthy has been quiet since The Road was published in 2006 (and no, he’s not on Twitter), but at 88 he has two new novels on the way this fall. Retention of employees from diverse backgrounds has long been a problem in the publishing industry, and We Need Diverse Books is […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Adam Tooze, Anne R. Allen, Brenda Drake, Cormac McCarthy, David Corbett, Pitch Wars, We Need Diverse Books

How a book is made (This week in books)

February 25, 2022 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This is one of those weeks when the news is distressing and other topics can seem a bit trivial in comparison. But books are still crucial, writing will keep playing an important role in whatever’s next, and your writing matters. So on to the links. The NY Times has a pretty fascinating look at how […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Amazon, Angela Ackerman, Anne R. Allen, David Moldawer, George Saunders, Jessica Faust, Lincoln Michel, publishing industry

Legislation introduced for a new Federal Writers’ Project (This week in books)

May 7, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! A brief scheduling note that I am going on a post-vaccination blog holiday for a couple of weeks, and I’ll be back with fresh content on May 24. Hope everyone who has access to a vaccine gets one and please consider donating to countries in need if you have the means. I’ll […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Anne R. Allen, Donald Maass, Federal Writers' Project, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, John B. Thompson

Watch out for these publishing scams (This week in books)

January 15, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 6 Comments

This week! Books! Well. It was a week. How are we doing out there? Publishing scams are pretty much as old as publishing, and they’re proliferating in our digital and gullible age. Anne. R. Allen has a good roundup of publishing scams to watch out for in 2021, including new ones (manuscript phishing!) and old […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Angie Thomas, Anne R. Allen, Confederacy of Dunces, George Saunders, Jane Friedman, Janet Reid, Lincoln Michel, Scams

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